Design Miami Paris 🖼️ Karl Lagerfeld, Hôtel de Maisons

 

This has been a major week for art 🖼️ collectors.

Champagne 🍾 was flowing.

Grandes Serres Tropical 🌴 Jardin des Plantes

 

Stepping into a wild jungle 🌴

When the rest of the world 🗺️ 

Marché des Enfants Rouges Map, Spaghetti Vongole

 

Very sad news yesterday of the fire 🔥 

That ravaged Marché des Enfants Rouges .

Fête des Vendanges 🍷 Montmartre

 

GRAPES OF MONTMARTRE

For 5 days this weekend you can drink 🍷 yourself silly

At the annual Harvest  Fête des Vendanges 🍇 de Montmartre.

Paris Sausage Walk, Guerlain Bleu

 

We were headed to PARIS SAUSAGE WALK on Champs-Élysées

When they threw everyone off Metro 1 at Châtelet. Quelle Horreur 😱 

Rick Owens SS27, Painting Croissants 🥐 Schiaparelli

I usually just go to Chanel because I know it’s at Grand Palais. Yesterday I took a chance. 

I read designer Rick Owens always shows his collection at Palais de Tokyo. Off I went. 

Cezanne and Us 🍎 Grand Palais

 

EIFFEL TOWER APPLE ON ETSY

Cezanne (1839 -1906)said,” With an apple 🍎 I will astonish Paris”

Last week was tomatoes 🍅 

Le Petit Prince 🫅 letter 💌

 

It’s not every week you meet up with 2 princes 👑 

Le Petit Prince Paris letter was sent out 📮 last weekend.

Delving deeper into the Petit Prince’s author,  

Festival de la Tomate 🍅 Chateau de la Bourdaisière

 

Yesterday I was a guest 

At FESTIVAL DE LA TOMATE 🍅 

Dolly’s Coat of many colors 🎵 Sonia Delaunay, Le Rentrée

I love ❤️ the story of Dolly’s Coat of Many Colors her mother made for her as a child, 

Out of scraps of colored fabric.

Dolly ❤️

 

Well this has been a crazy week.

When a tiny notice came up on Instagram 

Colette Paris Letter 💌

 

I wrote about French writer, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette in January 

And planned to do a Paris letter. 

Les Parasols de Deauville 🏖️

 

Last Friday I went back to Deauville.

Home of the iconic beach umbrellas 🏖️

Bibliothèque BnF Richelieu 📚

 

Saturday I finally made it to Bibliothèque BnF Richelieu.

It only took me 3 years since the renovation was completed in 2023.

Thank You Victor Hugo 🙏

WATERCOLOR PORTRAIT 

THANK YOU Victor Hugo 🙏

To whom I owe my 21-meter Chambre de Bonne 

Tale of a Rococo Fan,

 

Marie sent me an email of a blurry photo scrap of a fan 🪭 she once admired at an auction.

Being an ardent collector of antique fans 🪭 

More Bleu - Blanc - Rouge 🇫🇷 Cadeaux 🎁

 

Tuesday I went shopping for French 🇫🇷 flag color gifts for the JULY PARIS Letter.

 le Boutique de l’Assemblée Nationale at 7, rue Aristide Briarde 75007

Desperately Seeking Bleu, Blanc, Rouge 🇫🇷

 

The day after 

Bastille Day

Versace Retrospective, Musée Maillol, Painting Greens 🥬

 

This weekend I was going away to paint greens 🥬 

But fate 🌞 intervened, canceled my train 🚊 and I went to the VERSACE Retrospective instead.

Brocantes et meanderings…

  

Yesterday I painted an imaginary sailboat ⛵️  

Today at the Sunday BROCANTE I found it!

Monet Immersion, Musée Marmottan Monet, l’Orangerie

 

Saturday Bear 🐻 and I took a deep dive

Into a Monet immersion

La Grand Épicerie’s 10 year birthday 🎂 🥳

 

Saturday we celebrated La Grand Épicerie’s 10 year birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 of their Signature line of Products 👏

PHOTO BY SOLLI KANANI

In the insane heat 🔥 I went running 

David Hockney sketchbook 📕

 

I started looking at my old sketchbooks…

After watching David Hockney’s sketchbook ✍️ 

Le Bac À Glaces 🍨 with Shannon

Original watercolor 6” x 8”

 Ice cream 🍨 is always a good 👍 idea

Even though I’m not supposed to have  much sugar=hives.

Salon du Fromage 🧀 2026

 

ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR, 6”x 8”

 

I thought drawing ✍️ cheese would be a piece of cake 🍰 

It was not…